petro stakes hold between israel and hamas for a relative calm after the flare up in violence that's killed five israelis and scores of palestinians. but amid a shaky cease fire we'll look at why a previous agreements between the two have failed to stop the bloodshed in the region. plus the valve brussels with european leaders set to cross swords over the trillion euro e.u. budget while their public back home angrily protest over a stair. niamh of the russian capital you're watching r.t.l. marina joshua welcome to the program now more than

a week of bloodshed on the gaza border has halted with a cease fire to an strikes which have killed five israelis and more than one hundred fifty palestinians the truce began shakily with several rockets fired into southern israel after the deal was sealed here is our correspondent in tel aviv policy. a ceasefire has been announced and agreed to by both israel and hamas this is the second time in two days that we've heard such an announcement but this time it's a new does seem as if it's accurate now the ceasefire is a surprise to everyone it comes off to a bloody day both in israel and gaza early on wednesday there was a bus bombing in tel aviv twenty eight people were injured and very much the reaction after that bus bombing was that he was not going to launch a ground offensive into gaza rather than announce a cease fire so definitely here in tel aviv people have been taken by surprise now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier held a telephone calls with the american president barack obama in that phone call he

said that israel was ready to give the cease fire a chance is one is of course very concerned around the plane that it needs to lift its blockade of the information we have is that while agreeing to the cease fire it has not given the nod that in fact it will lift the blockade it has had on gaza for several years now but so be the focus on everyone's mind is the cease fire and whether one multiple proved to be able to hold in the coming hours and the coming days. policy here is also updating you on the situation in the middle east via her twitter feed and a recent post she says there are protests taking place in southern israel against the cease fire deal to check the latest underscore are to. doubts over whether the truce can hold out our fueled by the underlying disputes between israel and hamas that are far from resolved or just going to war on their deeply divided relations and how previous deals have panned out. this ceasefire

deal doesn't even begin to address the root causes of the conflict and as long as they remain the decades long cycle of violence is almost assured to continue by now most people lost track of all the previous cease fire agreements and more generally of where it all started and it became for the most part a chicken and egg conversation you have the years long suppression of the palestinians we saw the radical forces among them by using and striking its well with is well coming back at them so hard that even most peaceful palestinian started sympathizing with radical forces without going too far back in history in two thousand and six the cigars elected hamas that promised a more affirmative response to the story of the occupation in response israel put gaza under blockade the list of import was straight trans among many many other things including things like cement wood cat all animal medicine musical lindstrom and notebooks at one point even lentils tomato paste and chocolates were on the list of items not allowed into gaza it's not easy to gauge

what the blockade meant for the people there and all the humiliation that went with it as well insisted that the purpose of the blockade was to pressure hamas into ending the rocket attacks the attacks did not stop they intensified in two thousand and eight is where launched a major assault on gaza operation cast lead killed more than a thousand palestinians and thirteen israelis did not solve the problem again it got worse and american officials keep repeating the mantra israel has no right to defend itself it sure does but the tragedy is that the palestinians to think they're defending themselves. israel's deputy foreign minister says most of those killed and injured in the bombardment of gaza quote deserved it because he claims they were armed terrorists palestinian health officials and human rights activists however insist more than two thirds of those who died were civilians with almost half of them children israel though says the ratio is lower r.t.

talked to one of the country's m.p.'s assess her government conducted the assault in a very measured way. israel is putting so much effort to ensure that civilians are not hurt. i'm sorry but look at what we're spending on our money we're spending our money on defending our civilians making sure they're safe and making sure that we can we do not hurt civilians when we go to war what this hamas spend their money on they are hiding behind television crews they are hiding behind journalists and israel is doing something on paralleled in the history of warfare it makes for the people who are not involved are not killed and israel is really been commended by all countries not just for having the right to defend its citizens but also for the fact that it is couldn't ducting itself in a way that is very proportional and very measured. journalism and i worked as

don de bar says a cease fire might save the palestinians from bombs but not from the consequences of the years long israeli blockade. their condition degraded from being starving to being starving and bombed and now the bombing apparently will stop and so that is a reason to celebrate as meager as it might seem in the face of starvation again the the precondition to dealing with that is to give the people if not justice at least you know enough to survive and have a decent life right now it's a million and a half people in open an open air prison camp without food without medicine without the material means of survival except for those crumbs that are allowed to pass through the hands of israelis and until that changes israel will not see peace one place where the past week of deadly intensity has been fought as online nice here have ski takes a look at the conflicts twitter tactics the latest military conflict in the gaza strip may go down in history as the first war ever declared on twitter the official

account of the israeli defense force announced the start of the pillar of defense operation and one of those literally told the enemy to run and hide but later hamas had their say using similar war rhetoric. this exchange has been retreated thousands of times since and numbers do matter on twitter through hits likes replies and retreats and more people than ever before turn to social media and the question is who is winning this online warfare and numbers speak for themselves according to the hashtags dot org website the guards are under attack crash tag is ten times more popular than israel under fire for gaza is twenty times more popular than pray for israel and gaza hash tag is almost twice as popular as israel in a nutshell this is the battle between a heavily funded state propaganda machine and citizen journalism from the outside looking israel's content is better produced more powerful shiny and glossy take

these banners for instance which were posted on idea of official facebook page how mars has also been manning the information war trenches some say clumsily as these tweets may suggest but the effect of social media boom on young palestinian activists in changing public perception of the palestinian israeli conflict has been huge younger as the residents regularly rush to hospitals and take and upload photos and videos of tragedy and inhumanity and some of the pictures have become symbolic of israel's disproportionate use of force the graphic and vocal message in those tweets is perhaps the reason why palestinian citizen journalism is proving more effective and why israeli social networkers simply cannot compete with the content coming out of gaza where this first war started on twitter can become the first war lost on twitter is a question but one conclusion seems evident enough israel has not grasped the destructive power of social media s tightly as it's holding the people of gaza in

its grip. on the situation surrounding the ceasefire throughout the day and you can get fully across the story with our coverage and analysis from the outset and com. war lords will be notes we have. groups. all. right enough my lad it was like many of them out h. it wasn't course the smadi when i was in yes you can liberate their win

and you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe are going to spawn to across part of. the patient its population and better construction to stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. will do the trick to look at the world pass you by as the best and brightest take minds gather in moscow some came to work while others came to play and get up close and personal with devices that recreate masterpieces and scan russian treasures from inside and from space to keep us safe from oil spills and forest fires unleash

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back you're watching r t eight leaders are set for a major showdown in brussels worthy are gathering to thrash out a budget deal while some states are calling for a reduction in spending those have a way to panadol funds are fiercely against any cuts britain is the loudest voice against a budget increase but as our lord smith reports the chances for it to strike a good deal very slim. it's not shaping up to be a pleasant couple of days in brussels after three years of economic turmoil in the

e.u. which has weakened political ties dark divisions are emerging on one side northern europe and countries like the u.k. which are demanding huge cuts in spending to match their theah homes that's making countries to the south and east who are dependent on cash from brussels very uneasy a few presidents herman van rompuy is stuck between them he suggested seventy five billion euros in cuts to the more than trillion euros budget but that satisfied no one in britain appears to warm to the idea but really wants to cut two hundred fourteen billion old main leaders from both sides of the budget divide are threatening vetoes david cameron heading to brussels on what many a calling mission impossible he's under intense pressure to cut a new budget contribution but the daily telegraph newspaper understands that his

negotiating position is based on the e.u. budget as a whole not the u.k.'s sat in the budget that could lead to him signing a deal that reduces it as a whole but increases britain's coach abuses that wouldn't be at all popular at home and could easily lead to another rebellion in cameron's own government but as the situation stands it's not clear at all whether a deal will be possible in the u.k. is going on apply it is also adding to the pressure that david cameron is facing in the latest show van der thousands of students have him the streets of london protesting against rising university fees and the loss of financial support archie sarah for three four pts. then launching a guy like you is in face of the same put in place in the ad against cuts to education maybe most. parliament. completely closed off but this is

a promise by the lived before the last election that they wouldn't raise the tuition fees that a. couple of years ago you had each month of backlash and students about that i mean it's very tough because they said at the time even up until the point they were bringing in the rise in tuition fees that not every university with a taste of the very much some of the amounts that nine thousand pounds yeah i was actually what we've seen is a lot of the universities are charging that's up about. the fact of the amount of people who have access to high level education and university that's going to be one of the main points of the students here being trying to make. greek leaders are furious at the country being left in limbo after european leaders couldn't agree on handing over the next thirty one billion euros athens vitally needs to avoid insolvency it's strange to me debtors demands with thousands of layoffs that sparked even more protests and coniston thought is fraud it says people there are

on the edge. but you had this very old kind of blame game going on between the greek government and i met for the troika all together a bit if you want to kind of have a dog ate my homework kind of excuses going on over and over again both of course were very disastrous i'm not sure if i had told the results or people here on the ground people are really not buying into this kind of there which is a very blatant lies by now and he's going to excuses i'm just an example just to show you how many things are going on are not really being very much reported or tool in three hundred twenty five municipalities across the entire country and until yesterday and i may have already lost count two hundred forty of them have been either occupied old look by their workers who are refusing to just let go on of course these are the workers you're threatened with in egypt in egypt to lay off due to too late this kind of package i was going to doing by the greek parliament so people are really put on getting on a fight on the ground and is just a matter of the international media picking up a time to actually. and as the greek struggle to draw attention to they are

suffering there is a little relief on the horizon with a postcard of twenty two thousand more jobs put down to a mistake by the i.m.f. so had to call for the whole story. plus bearing all is sure to draw attention by staging a provocative protest as earned several feminist activist some want to welcome attention from french protestors. war lords will give him a note so we have a local. groups view of the closeness of the sluices also our views in the right enough to my mouth it was like many of them out h. it wasn't. the smadi when i was fourteen yes you can liberate other when they certainly can't do it through the barrel of

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welcome back you're watching r.t. international human rights campaigners have slammed bahrain for remaining on its promises of reform and for ramping up repression amnesty international accuses the gulf marquis of failing to free political prisoners investigate torture allegations and implement political changes as prescribed by an independent commission that investigated a crackdown on protests the push for democracy has seen more than eighteen months of anti-government rallies some deadly but unlike other arab uprisings bahrain has

gone a largely unnoticed abroad and as the international also weighed in to the u.s. for failing to back up concerns over its rally over its ally rather with action adding that washington risks in a wing abuse and charity only sees things getting worse oh well we have that's actually the situation is much force than it was months ago it's for you terry writes in we're talking about at least twenty four people being killed after the beheading dependent commission of inquiry issued its reports last year a ban on protests of d.m. to fucked over an only a week ago there were occasional national joke thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment human rights defenders one of them is now the president of the famed center for human rights that was sentenced these summer to three years increase in america for having exercise his right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be

a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of allegations of torture that that's happened especially since that big enough two thousand and eleven international community has not enough pressure on the bahamian government to ensure. that any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented. what we are seeing is that a year after that b.q. report was issued we have seen that that main welcome day shows that wouldn't. sure a country justice for victims has not been implemented. well as now take a look at some other international news mehad lines the sour pakistan has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks that have left twenty three people dead and dozens wounded the bloodiest assault took place and pindi want to suicide bomber attacked a shia religious ceremony the violence came just hours after an explosion destroyed a security vehicle in quetta and twin blasts outside a shia mosque in karate. congolese rebels from the militant group and twenty three

have voiced their plans to seize the country's capital the statement was made in the city of gone which the fighters captured on tuesday after al sting u.n. backed government forces the rebel commander called on the people of the city to join the march on kinshasa topple president joseph kabila the un security council earlier agreed tangshan southern rebel leadership introducing a travel ban and said freeze. and the government rallies rock chile's capital santiago with at least four students arrested in clashes police used baton a water cannon to disperse the crowd as demonstrators called for changes to the country's school system chile has seen pro reform protests since two thousand and eleven with students demanding free quality education. many tourist travelling to in the year drawn by the low prices they pay for their comfort but as artie's reports even the most basic services they enjoy have a hidden cost to local communities. beautiful beaches and luxurious resorts may go

on the western coast of india a tourist hot spot for people around the world really enjoy it we just arrived here couple of days ago so we really enjoy tourism drives the economy here and go up but it comes at a price a new study found that tourists actually use eight times as much water the local during peak season sometimes only get access to running water for two hours every other day goings used to depend on wells in their neighborhoods for water but the population in the small state triples during the peak tourist season and with no proper sewage systems in place many wells have become contaminated forcing locals to rely on the erratic public supply. for emergency. room have. sinned that plastic bangs and on and we have to keep otherwise there's no war. but while the locals access to water is draining.

just down the road water flows freely in the resorts or tourists enjoy fountains fish ponds and splashing in the pools that's because hoteliers can afford to dominate the limited supply even if they do so illegally most five star hotels get water from tankers and most tankers operate without a license they take water from local wells in neighborhoods where extraction is banned by law what music was so i know you. know what i. feel and so the restaurant owner foods he has to buy from the bank. no doubt but he's forced to buy the average tourist enjoying go as water feature is here for less than a week willing to pay up for short term fun but most are unaware of the frail future in this coastal community in my perspective i'm going to stay here only for . the. i would be most of

a concern and for those born and raised here the disparity is infuriating half the population relies on tourists for their livelihood although it's one that leaves them without access to a basic human right i wasn't giving me because i will i mean you've lived till you've you've grown up in this area so you know you kind of silly is this fair i mean is this just in the system to be assistance to misplacing to the so we all of us come. to the question in this who actually benefits them to what isn't that cool school list but with no limit on how much water can be bought hotels will remain the highest bidder leaving the locals hanging out to dry preassure either r t go india and coming up in just a few minutes we take a closer look at the difficulties women continue to face in their war torn country .

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